From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 21 03:38:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D079416A41C for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:38:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1120189138.8b088f@mired.org) Received: from delight.idiom.com (delight.idiom.com [216.240.32.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B517343D55 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:38:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1120189138.8b088f@mired.org) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by delight.idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D681F9697 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:38:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (mwm@idiom [216.240.32.1]) by idiom.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j5L3csmI003499 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1120189138.8b088f@mired.org) Received: (qmail 11905 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Jun 2005 03:38:58 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1001); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:38:58 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17079.35793.697409.175239@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:38:57 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 17) "Jumbo Shrimp" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) Cc: Subject: Finding a wireless lan card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:38:56 -0000 I recently asked for help finding a wireless lan card. I got a couple of solid suggestions, some suggestions on buying a "wireless ethernet bridge", and a "wireless lan master list" for Linux systems. Since my solution was none of the above, I wanted to post it so it would show up in the search engines. The Linux wireless lan master list was rather long, and turned out to be pretty useless. Some of the chipsets listed don't have FreeBSD drivers; some of the drivers FreeBSD has aren't on that list. Further, as others noted here, sonme some of the manufacturers rev chipsets - or even change chipsets completely(!) without changing the product identification. What I wound up doing was buying a Wireless Access Point from Linksys, which could be set to "bridge mode". Turns out it only bridges to products from the same company. It does, however, have an "AP client" mode that doesn't have that restriction. That lets me survey the local wireless networks, chose one, and connect to it. Worked like a charm. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.